Fighter Flight - Episode 66

An acquaintance of Falk's has dates to the barn dance with two women on the same night. Can Falk steer them away from catastrophe? Will guns be involved? Listen to find out!

Fighter Flight, episode 66 of This Gun in My Hand, was piloted by Rob Northrup. This episode and all others are available on Youtube with automatically-generated closed captions of dialog. Visit http://ThisGuninMyHand.blogspot.com for credits, show notes, information on how to subscribe, and to buy my books, such as Little Heist in the Big Woods and Other Revisionist Atrocities. What would make you join a group of aviation-themed crime-fighters? This Gun in My Hand!

Show Notes:
1. Take a sharp right at the end of Diagon Alley and you end up in Terf Alley.

2. The surname Cusamano was taken from a character on The Sopranos. Martha Raye (1916-1994) was a comic actress and singer. Raydeen was one of the Shogun Warriors robots. Moscardino is an Italian name that can refer to types of hawk or sparrowhawk, according to the internet.

3. “Flick Zoltan” was a fake name Falk used in Episode 12, “Made in the Shade.” “Flinch Zipjam” was a sad sack version of Falk from a parallel dimension, introduced in Episode 51, “Flinch Zipjam in the Negative Space.”

4. Captain Fearless, Captain Fight, Captain Flag, Captain Freedom, Sergeant Twilight, Captain Glory, Captain Valiant, and Captain Victory are names of actual public domain superheroes. When Falk and Gilbert talk about Captain Marvel, they mean the one from Fawcett Comics, not the later versions from Marvel Comics.

Credits:
The opening and middle transitional music clips were from the public domain film The Sun Sets at Dawn (1950). Songs used in the episode are modified or incomplete versions of the originals.

Music at the barn dance, in order:

Music Title: Mystery!
Composed by Milton Ager, Joseph A. Cirina, Cliff Hess and Howard E. Johnson.
Performed by Paul Biese’s Novelty Orchestra
Recorded December 16, 1919
License: Public Domain
https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Antique_Phonograph_Music_Program_Various_Artists/Antique_Phonograph_Music_Program_05052009/Mystery_1254/

Music Title: He Used To Be Your Man But He’s My Man Now
Composed by Perry Bradford
Performed by Johnny Dunn’s Original Jazz Hounds, vocals by Edith Wilson
Recorded December 14, 1922
License: Public Domain
https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Antique_Phonograph_Music_Program_Various_Artists/Antique_Phonograph_Music_Program_272012_Live_from_Brooklyn_Farmacy__Soda_Fountain/Edith_Wilson_And_Johnny_Dunns_Original_Jazz_Hounds_-_07_-_He_Used_To_Be_Your_Man_But_Hes_My_Man_Now_1788/

Music Title: Hillbilly Swing
By Kevin MacLeod
License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
https://filmmusic.io/song/5705-hillbilly-swing

The image accompanying this episode is a modified detail of the cover of Cosmopolitan magazine, May 1941, painted by Bradshaw Crandell.

I Think You Better Come See This - Episode 65

What terrifying vision compels the Wordsmith to summon Falk Zildjian, and why can’t he just explain it over the phone? Listen to find out!

I Think You Better Come See This, episode 65 of This Gun in My Hand, was written, performed, edited and produced by Rob Northrup. This episode and all others are available on Youtube with automatically-generated closed captions of dialog. Visit http://ThisGuninMyHand.blogspot.com for credits, show notes, information on how to subscribe, and to buy my books, such as Little Heist in the Big Woods and Other Revisionist Atrocities. What’s keeping you from just describing the situation over the phone? This Gun in My Hand!

Show Notes:
1. This episode was partly inspired by an episode of Deep Space Nine in which someone told Sisko over a communicator, “I think you better come see this,” because the writers wanted to show and not tell, I guess.

2. The first pre-sweetened cereal was Ranger Joe Wheat Honnies, produced in 1939. It was similar to the puffed wheat cereals still produced today under the names Golden Crisp and Honey Smacks. Jesse Rogers starred as Ranger Joe on a Philadelphia tv station from 1950-1952.

3. Listen to the fake commercial in episode 59, “Publisher War Zone,” for more details about Pizzicato, formerly the Parabellum City Area Transit System.

3. That’s a real commercial in the middle of this episode. Listen to Blazed All Our Lives wherever you find podcasts.

Credits:
The opening and middle transitional music clips were from The Sun Sets at Dawn (1950), and the closing music was from Killer Bait (1949), both films in the public domain. Most of the music and sound effects used in the episode are modified or incomplete versions of the originals.

Dial tone taken from short instructional film Introduction to The Dial Telephone (1936).

Title: Traffic mel 1.wav
By malupeeters
License: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0
https://freesound.org/people/malupeeters/sounds/191350/

Sound Effect Title: telephone.mp3 (ring)
By Werra
License: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0
https://freesound.org/people/Werra/sounds/78565/

Sound Effect Title: House Front Door Inside 3.wav
License: Public domain
https://freesound.org/people/saturdaysoundguy/sounds/388027/#

Sound Effect Title: Kitten Meowing.wav
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/lolamadeus/sounds/196251/

The image accompanying this episode is a modified detail of the cover of Phantom Detective, Vol. 53, No. 1 (March 1949). Art by Rudolph Belarski. Public domain.